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Overview

PTE Reading Session 1

Sissi Luo

Multiple Choice: single answer

• There are several possible response options but only
one is correct.

• The option you select is highlighted in yellow.

• You need to finish each question within 1.5 min.

• Text up to 300 words.

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1. main topic/focus
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• What is the writer’s main purpose/point focus?
• PTE teaching strategy
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• 1) main idea (gist);
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• 2) indicating word (details);

• 3) “which one…”
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1.1 1.2 Sample

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But, however, nevertheless…

Even, although, while…

Therefore, so, thus, as a result… “I”

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In fact, to conclude, it comes to, in summary…

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1.2 Sample 1.3 Practice

1.3 Practice 2.
• What problem does the passage mention about XXX?

• Why/what is the reason that XXX is important?

• —> —> “
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2.1 2.2 Sample

• XXX

• * ( ) XXX
or

• ...

2.2 Sample 2.2 Sample

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1 Practice 1

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• B sea snails, being carried

• sea snail latch onto

• C D

Practice 1 Practice 1

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Practice 2 Practice 2

Practice 2 2

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am, is, are, be, being, become, seem…

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Sample Sample ans

• However, the search for the stages through which

• However, the search for the stages through which an organ in any an organ in any one species has come to perfection, which ideally
one species has come to perfection, which ideally would mean
looking exclusively at its past generations, is rarely possible. would mean looking exclusively at its past generations, is
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rarely possible.
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ans

• The supermarket itself – the wallboard and joint

• The supermarket itself – the wallboard and joint compound, the
linoleum and fiberglass and adhesives out of which the building compound, the linoleum and fiberglass and adhesives out of
itself has been built – is in no small measure a manifestation of is in no small
which the building itself has been built –
corn.
measure a manifestation of corn.
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3. “ ” 3.1

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• Which of the following is true according to the passage?
• —> —>
• which of the following is mentioned as…

• “ ” • tip

3.2 Sample

• ABC ABC
DEF

• notes

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3.2 Sample practice 1

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practice 1 Multiple choice: multiple answer

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Scoring

• Text up to 300 words

• For this item type you need to read the passage and answer the
multiple-choice question. There is more than one correct response.

• You need to finish each question within 2 mins.

Sample

• key words

• key words

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Sample Practice
D

B+G
C+E

B
Practice Practice 2

A
C+E

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Practice 2 Re-order paragraph I

D

Scoring

For this item type you need to restore the original order of the text by
selecting text boxes and dragging them across the screen.
To deselect a box, left-click elsewhere on the screen.
Text up to 150 words

• Reading skills assessed only

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Sample

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